The Official G84/G86 Rumours & Speculation Thread
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I think that was probably more of a coincidence (even if it was intentional) than an indication of a standard naming convention. FX 5200 was NV34, FX 5600 was NV31, and FX 5700 was NV36.
The transitor/ALU ratios still don't make sense.
Jawed
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http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4899
BSP engine? and a new video engine? This could be nVIDIA counter to ATI's new integrated video processor.
BSP engine? and a new video engine? This could be nVIDIA counter to ATI's new integrated video processor.
The part about the G80 and even the upcoming 8800 Ultra not having these "BSP" and video processors pretty much seals it about the Ultra being little more than an overclocked 8800 GTX.
I was expecting more for a 1000 dollar card...
Yeap, this 8800 ultra will be based off the G80 core. Its going bit OT but i guess this card could potentially carry 1.5gb of ram (highely likely), OCed past current 8800GTXs (so thats over 650Mhz), have a higher shader clock, and maybe use GDDR4 memory.
I bet, there will be people buying not one, but two of these for gaining the bigget e-penis title.
Hmm, is it me or this feels like history repeating itself.
7800GTX 512mb.. (A G70 on steroids, double the frame buffer, fastest GDDR3 at that time etc)
deja vu?
I hope you meant that 8800 Ultra will highly unlikely have 1.5GB of high-speed GDDR4. I'm not sure why people think memory size is a strong selling point in the high-end where consumers are more informed. If it's slower than AMD's 1GB offering, raising the BOM without increasing performance is one of the stupider things they could do. They do have to be competitive in performance and price after all.
Keep in mind that even with 1.5GB, they would still use just 12 chips (64 x 6 channels = 384bit).
R600 needs 16, whether it's the 512MB or the 1GB version (64 x 8 channels = 512bit).
Granted, i don't know much about the current GDDR3/GDDR4 memory market bulk prices for IHV's (and it does fluctuate a lot, as we know), but it could be another factor to consider before talking about the BOM of each card.
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Quarter SPs, ~42% transistor count?
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=6584
Nothing like feeling like a sucker for sticking to NDAs when not even the AIBs do.
Nothing like feeling like a sucker for sticking to NDAs when not even the AIBs do.
Blazkowicz
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why have a disabled cluster on a midrange GPU?
IIRC, there was a similar subject a while back on the NV43, but it turned out to have insufficient transistors to back the claims.
Maybe it was Unwinder who first talked about it ? Can't remember exactly.
If true, we might even get to see the so called bridge product between the 8600 GTS and the 8800 GTS 320MB that was discussed earlier, but for now let's just get them out with this "miracle driver" of theirs, and see what they can actually do first in GT/GTS mode.
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